Hacker News story: Ask HN: How does project management work in your small / tiny startup?

Ask HN: How does project management work in your small / tiny startup?
For some context I work for a tiny startup where I'm the only tech person. I am frequently handed a task that is unclearly defined and I work with the business owner to tease out the spec over time or am expected to come up with the "correct" solution intuitively. We're so small that everybody has too much work to do so I understand the necessity to just hand off the work but because I don't deal with clients my "correct" solution on first pass frequently diverges from what the owner / stakeholder is thinking. In addition the work sort of stacks up with the highest priority task being the one that has a client deadline attached or is a flashy "marketing" feature. There is no clear direction from the owner describing what should go next in the pipeline with a huge list of possible projects both small & large. The critical stuff is often left for me to work out outside of or in between the other requests but almost never has dedicated time to deal with it. We don't really have the budget to hire another tech person and have tried outsourcing work which resulted in almost exclusively terrible / sub-par results (which was partly on us). I also am not clear I'm given the tools to succeed in the sense that I feel like in a larger organization a CEO might tell a manager they want X feature and the manager is required to figure it out but they have more access to work out what a "correct" solution is (via access to stakeholder(s)). I realize there is a lot wrong with this picture and I should probably have already moved on but I'd like to grow as a person and think this is an opportunity for just that. I'm just not sure how to turn the tide in the direction I want. Anyway TIA. 0 comments on Hacker News.
For some context I work for a tiny startup where I'm the only tech person. I am frequently handed a task that is unclearly defined and I work with the business owner to tease out the spec over time or am expected to come up with the "correct" solution intuitively. We're so small that everybody has too much work to do so I understand the necessity to just hand off the work but because I don't deal with clients my "correct" solution on first pass frequently diverges from what the owner / stakeholder is thinking. In addition the work sort of stacks up with the highest priority task being the one that has a client deadline attached or is a flashy "marketing" feature. There is no clear direction from the owner describing what should go next in the pipeline with a huge list of possible projects both small & large. The critical stuff is often left for me to work out outside of or in between the other requests but almost never has dedicated time to deal with it. We don't really have the budget to hire another tech person and have tried outsourcing work which resulted in almost exclusively terrible / sub-par results (which was partly on us). I also am not clear I'm given the tools to succeed in the sense that I feel like in a larger organization a CEO might tell a manager they want X feature and the manager is required to figure it out but they have more access to work out what a "correct" solution is (via access to stakeholder(s)). I realize there is a lot wrong with this picture and I should probably have already moved on but I'd like to grow as a person and think this is an opportunity for just that. I'm just not sure how to turn the tide in the direction I want. Anyway TIA.